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07.10.2025

Books About Censorship for Kids

These books about censorship for kids are a great starting point for introducing young readers to this important topic.

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07.10.2025

Read Harder Challenge Books Out in October 2025

These new books out in October complete 2025 Read Harder Challenge tasks, including cozy reads and genre-blending books.

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07.10.2025

8 Chosen One YA Fantasy Books

These chosen one YA novels paint fantastic and compelling worlds for our protagonists to work their way through on their hero journeys.

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07.10.2025

6 New Mystery & Thriller Adaptations to Watch in October 2025

October's mystery and thriller adaptations include a blockbuster psychological thriller, an anime series featuring found family + spies, and more.

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07.10.2025

Notable October Book Releases, BIPOC Edition

There are mother-daughter dynamics in a Puerto Rican barrio, a Southern Black artist navigating the Manhattan art world, and more.

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06.10.2025

Book Riot's Deals of the Day for October 5, 2025

One of 2024's best books, bestselling nonfiction on genes, an award-winning Asian period drama fantasy, a disturbing thriller, and more of the best ebook deals of the day

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06.10.2025

The Book News We Covered This Week

Here are the stories we covered ourselves on Book Riot this week.

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05.10.2025

The Biggest Book News of the Week

The top headlines from the week in book news.

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05.10.2025

15 Queer Books on My Halloween Month TBR

Here are 15 of the seasonal queer reads on my October TBR, from sapphic gothics to trans horror to an asexual haunted house romance and more.

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05.10.2025

Book Riot's Deals of the Day for October 4, 2025

A Hitchcock-esque thriller, revolutionary self love, a 1930s Japanese murder mystery, a bestselling surveillance- heavy dystopian, and more of the best ebook deals of the day

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04.10.2025

What Government Censorship Actually Looks Like

To quote 1984, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

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04.10.2025

Obsessed with Social Media and Dissatisfied with Your Job? This is the Book for You!

Looking for an escape from our current capitalist hellscape? Beatriz Serrano's Discontent is not the novel for you.

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04.10.2025

Director of Eisenhower Library in Kansas Fired After Refusing to Give Trump a Sword

Pretty weird line-up of book news today.

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04.10.2025

The Most Read Books on Goodreads in September 2025

Here were the five most-read books on Goodreads last month! These are the buzziest books of the moment, from historical fiction to thrillers.

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04.10.2025

What are You Reading in October?

What did you read in September? What's on your TBR for October? And which 2025 Read Harder Challenge tasks did you complete? Let's chat!

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04.10.2025

The Average Age of America's Most-Banned Books Is Older Than a High School Senior: Book Censorship News, October 3, 2025

The average age of the most banned books in America is higher than the young people those bans seek to "protect."

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04.10.2025

Book Riot's Deals of the Day for October 3, 2025

An examination of fascism, the murder of no-good husbands, reflections on a year of celibacy, and more of today's best book deals

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8 Great Fantasy Novels for Fans of Dungeons & Dragons

Book Riot's Deals of the Day for October 8, 2025

Crunchyroll Enters the Digital Comics Space With CRUNCHYROLL MANGA

The National Book Awards Finalists are Here

British Crime Dramas to Stream!

Even More of the Best Book Covers of 2025 So Far

Are Celebrity Book Clubs Still Taste Makers?

8 Stunning Historical Novels by Latine Writers

The Best Prime Day Deals On Boxed Sets, Paperbacks, and Hardcovers

A Book for All of Us Who Resist Taking Breaks

Tariffs Trap Libraries' Internationally Loaned Books

19 of the Most-Anticipated New Queer Books Out in October 2025

The 2025 National Book Awards Shortlists Are Here

South Carolina Students and Librarians Sue State Education Superintendent Over Book Bans

See What The Biggest Book Clubs Picked for October 2025!

Book Riot's Deals of the Day for October 7, 2025

Bookshop.org Offers Free Shipping and 20% Off Banned Books for “Anti-Prime Day”

LeVar Burton Named Indie Bookstore Ambassador and More Book News!

The Summer I First Felt Feelings

New Superhero Comics for 2025

The Best Queer Books of the Year: Meet the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winners

Book Riot's Deals of the Day for October 6, 2025

Major Literary Prizes to Anticipate This Week

Books About Censorship for Kids

Read Harder Challenge Books Out in October 2025

8 Chosen One YA Fantasy Books

6 New Mystery & Thriller Adaptations to Watch in October 2025

Notable October Book Releases, BIPOC Edition

Book Riot's Deals of the Day for October 5, 2025

The Book News We Covered This Week

The Biggest Book News of the Week

15 Queer Books on My Halloween Month TBR

Book Riot's Deals of the Day for October 4, 2025

What Government Censorship Actually Looks Like

Obsessed with Social Media and Dissatisfied with Your Job? This is the Book for You!

Director of Eisenhower Library in Kansas Fired After Refusing to Give Trump a Sword

The Most Read Books on Goodreads in September 2025

What are You Reading in October?

The Average Age of America's Most-Banned Books Is Older Than a High School Senior: Book Censorship News, October 3, 2025

Book Riot's Deals of the Day for October 3, 2025

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